OCTOBEB 21, 1910] 



SCIENCE 



551 



International Commission on Terrestrial Mag- 

 netism and Atmospheric Electricity and mem- 

 ber of the International Commission on Radi- 

 ation in order to represent Argentina. He 

 has been a member of the International Cloud 

 Commission and the International Solar Com- 

 mission since their organizations. 



Dr. Herman A. Spoehr, assistant in chem- 

 istry at the University of Chicago, has been 

 appointed a member of the staff of the de- 

 partment of botanical research of the Carnegie 

 Institution of Washington. Dr. Spoehr is in- 

 vestigating certain problems in plant physiol- 

 ogy which lend themselves to the application 

 of chemical methods. 



Dr. F. Gowland Hopkins, F.R.S., late nat- 

 ural science tutor at Emmanuel College, Cam- 

 bridge, and formerly demonstrator in physiol- 

 ogy at Guy's Hospital, has been admitted into 

 a fellowship at Trinity College upon receiving 

 the appointment of prselector in bio-chemis- 

 try. 



Mr. E. B. Greig, of the North of Scotland 

 College of Agriculture, has been appointed a 

 member of the Australian Agricultural Com- 

 mission. 



After several months spent among the 

 Crow Indians of Montana, Dr. Robert H. 

 Lowie, of the American Museum of Natural 

 History, has been at work among the Hidatsa 

 of the Fort Berthold Reservation, North Da- 

 kota. 



George F. Iva\-, professor of petrology and 

 economic geology. University of Iowa, spent 

 the months of July and August examining 

 ■coal claims in the Katalla field. Alaska. He 

 Tvas in the employ of the Forest Service of the 

 Department of Agriculture. 



Dr. Arthur Edwin Haynes, professor of 

 •engineering mathematics at the University of 

 Minnesota, has been granted leave of absence 

 ■for one year. He has taught consecutively for 

 thirty-five years, the past seventeen at Min- 

 nesota University. 



The council of the Institution of Civil 

 Engineers has made the following awards for 

 papers published in the proceedings: A Tel- 

 ford gold medal to Major W. W. Hart<, U. S. 



Army (Nashville, Tenn.) ; a Watt gold medal 

 to Mr. A. Trewby (London) ; a Crampton 

 prize to Professor A. H. Gibson and Mr. A. 

 Ryan (Manchester), and Telford premiums to 

 Messrs. W. R. Baldwin-Wiseman (South- 

 ampton), O. W. Griffith (London), Dr. W. E. 

 Lilley (Dublin), W. Corin (Sydney), J. A. 

 Saner (Northwich), and F. O. Blaokwell 

 (New York) ; the Indian premium for 1010 to 

 Mr. C. W. Lloyd- Jones (Secunderabad). 



Professor James R. Angell, of the Univer- 

 sity of Chicago, will give three lectures at the 

 Union College in January and February. 

 They will be known as the Ichabod Spencer 

 lectureship series, and are supported by the 

 endowment of $75,000 for the department of 

 philosophy which was recently made by Mrs. 

 Catherine Leavitt, of Washington, in memory 

 of her father, Ichabod Spencer. 



Dr. Eugene Oberi-iummer, professor of 

 geography in the University of Vienna, will 

 give a course of lectures next month at the 

 Johns Hopkins University. 



The Harveian oration before the Royal Col- 

 lege of Physicians of London was delivered 

 by Dr. H. B. Donkin on October 18. 



The monument to Johann Mendel, who died 

 in Braun in 1884, was unveiled there on Oc- 

 tober 1 in the presence of a number of repre- 

 sentatives of foreign institutions. 



Dr. Ernst von Leyden, for more than forty 

 years professor in the University of Berlin 

 and eminent for his contributions to pathol- 

 ogy, has died at the age of seventy-eight years. 



Dr. Jakob Lueeoth, professor of mathe- 

 matics at Freiburg, has died at the age of 

 sixty-sis years. 



An official announcement is made by the 

 State Department of information received 

 from the Berlin embassy concerning the recent 

 establishment of the " Amerika Institut " in 

 Berlin. Professor Hugo Miinsterberg, of 

 Harvard University, exchange professor at 

 Berlin for the current academic year, is the 

 first director of the institution, which is 

 founded and supported by American and Ger- 

 man contributors with the object of furthering 



